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Cultural Competence: Out-of-Home Care

Children who cannot remain safely with their families are often placed in out-of-home care, such as foster care, residential care, or with approved relative family caregivers. Cultural issues can play a role in child and family outcomes in out-of-home care.

• Children from minority groups
• Children who are immigrants
• Foster parents

Updated on December 7, 2007